The Life and Poetry of John CuttsPress of Deputy brothers Company, 1917 - 37 Seiten |
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Seite 25 - ONLY tell her that I love: Leave the rest to her and Fate: Some kind planet from above May perhaps her pity move: Lovers on their stars must wait. — Only tell her that I love! Why, O why should I despair!
Seite 35 - La Muse de Cavalier, or an Apology for such Gentlemen as make Poetry their Diversion, not their Business," in a letter from a Scholar of Mars, to one of Apollo, printed in the Public Register, or Weekly Magazine, No.
Seite 29 - And who heaps knowledge, sorrow doth increase. 8 But now some sullen hermit smiles, And thinks he all the world beguiles, And that his cell and dish contain What all mankind wish for in vain. But yet his pleasure's followed with a groan, For man was never born to be alone.
Seite 11 - ... try'd my utmost Skill, A Tyde of Love drives back my floating Will, When on the naked Beach you see me lye, For Pity's sake you must not let me dye. Take Pattern by the glorious God of Day, And raise no Storms but what you mean to lay; He, when the Charms of his attractive Eye Have stir'd up Vapours and disturb'd the Sky, Lets Nature weep and sigh a little while, And then revives her with a pleasing smile. If 'tis to try me, use me as you please, But, when that Tryal's over, give me ease; Don't...
Seite 30 - Heaven and earth, each other to out-do, Vied both in cannons, and in fireworks too. So Israel pass'd through the divided flood, While in obedient heaps the ocean stood ; But the same sea (the Hebrews once on shore) Return'd in torrents where it was before.
Seite x - An housholdere, and that a greet, was he; Seint Julian he was in his contree.
Seite 33 - Come, my Ardelia, to this Bower, Where kindly mingling Souls awhile, Let's innocently spend an hour; And at all serious follies smile. 2. Here is no quarrelling for Crowns, Nor fear of changes in our Fate; No trembling at the Great Ones frowns, Nor any slavery of State.
Seite 1 - Poetical Exercises written Upon Several Occasions. Presented and Dedicated to Her Royal Highness, Mary Princess of Orange.
Seite xxvii - Hie first operation was the siege of Venloo, which was carried by storm on the 18th September, after various actions in the course of the siege.
Seite xxviii - Venlo, & making way for farther successes ; and it met with general approbation, for the world has made more noise of it than it deserves. I had the honour to command brave men ; I had the fortune to take my measures right ; and God blessed me with success.